Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
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He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.
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So pretty i had to eat him
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Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.
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The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.
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That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
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You're insane!" she shouted. "Pretty cool, huh?" "No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?" Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?" "More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy. "Well, kind of. But you suck!
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That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.
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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
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Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.
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Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
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Never bored on a hoverboard.
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Barking hard work, being a boy.
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You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
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Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.
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Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.
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I go where the lizards tell me.
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Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.
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Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
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Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.
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It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
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It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.